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Tears at the Heart of Things: Moral Distress Among Principals of Canadian-Accredited Schools in China
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Moral distress arises when a person is aware of a moral problem, acknowledges a moral responsibility to act, yet is constrained from following a course of action congruent with their own moral judgement (Nathaniel, 2006; Jameton, 1984). Being hindered from doing what one believes to be morally...
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2023-09-12
NFRF-I awarded 2024: This project focuses on enhancing energy transition planning, recognizing that such plans must: integrate mitigation and adaptation; embrace a justice framework; and be socio culturally embedded within local geographies. This demands direct engagement with the diverse peoples...
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Rural Chinese Older Adults Use of Social Media as a Learning Tool: Opportunities and Obstacles to Learning
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Because of the development of digital technology, social media is becoming an indispensable software in everyone's mobile phones and computers. The rise of social media has led educators and learners to explore the possibilities of integrating it into the field of learning. Social media's unique...
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Educational Needs for Hypertension Control among Adult Ghanaians Diagnosed with Chronic Kidney Disease and Hypertension
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The prevalence of uncontrolled hypertension is often higher among people living with chronic kidney disease (CKD) than among those with hypertension alone. This doctoral mixed-method study was conducted to identify and describe the educational needs for hypertension control among adult Ghanaians...
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Spring 2023
It is now acknowledged in Creative Writing research that the traditional writing workshop as developed in United States universities during the 20th century was initially propagated across the globe as part of a project to secure American soft power, and it remains ideologically slanted toward...
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Dispossession and Accumulation in an Ethnic Minority Border Region: The Kazakh Project in Altay Prefecture, Xinjiang, China
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This study examines Altay Prefecture, one of China’s border regions inhabited by ethnic Kazakhs, as a case to elucidate how the Chinese state has achieved dispossession and accumulation through the management of ethnicity and culture in an ethnic minority region. Within the framework of a case...
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2022-01-18
Evan Oddleifson, Shaoyan Sun, Darren Choi, Sean Janke, Guofeng Wu, Camille Bourgeois-Fortin
Canada and Hong Kong have long shared close economic and people-to-people ties that have supported cultural exchange and mutual economic gain. Hong Kong also serves as a gateway between Canada and China, making the Canada-Hong Kong relationship key for Canada-China relations and the future of...
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Along Came a Virus: Leisure in a Dangerous Time Hermeneutic phenomenological explorations of the lifeworld experiences and meanings of leisure of African immigrant mothers and daughters, during the COVID-19 pandemic
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The purpose of my hermeneutic phenomenological study was to explore the lived experiences of leisure of African immigrant mothers and daughters resettled in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic. My research questions explored (a) how African immigrant mothers and daughters describe their lived...
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2021-02-08
SSHRC PG awarded 2021: Despite Sub-Saharan Africans' (SSAIs) significant size and growth over the past half century, they are poorly understood and underserved by mainstream immigrant settlement and integration services, Canadian institutions, and academia, at large. The Partnership for Research...